Maintenance Supervisor/Planner

Maintenance Supervisor/Planner

Supervises and provides technical direction to the maintenance workforce. Essential functions include assuming responsibility role and adhering to station health & safety, environmental, and personnel policies. Supervises and provides technical direction to the maintenance workforce. Plans, schedules, and supervises the day-to-day and weekly work. Assists with the troubleshooting of equipment problems. Works to develop team member capabilities in equipment problem troubleshooting. Evaluates and enhances team member knowledge and skill level by providing capable instruction and recommendations for training. Manages outages, including planning, facilitating outage meetings, and coordinating multi-disciplined work groups. Manages costs within responsible budget area assigned and assists in preparation of budgets. Works within a computerized maintenance management system for work history, scheduling, and purchasing of materials, parts and personnel. Provides oversight of predictive and preventive maintenance activities and equipment performance analysis using diagnostic technologies and portable test equipment. Reads, interprets, modifies, and implements technical information found in manufacturer's technical manuals, electrical and mechanical blueprints, P&ID's, and operating and maintenance procedures.

Qualification guidelines include a high school diploma and 5 8 years of coal fueled power plant or similar heavy industry process involving fossil fuels. Knowledge of power plant operating principles, procedures, and safe work practices is required. Must have knowledge of job safety requirements, work planning, and troubleshooting. Leadership skills, verbal and written communication, ability to effectively supervise, train, and direct subordinates, ability to troubleshoot and repair equipment and systems, sound decision making, high initiative, demonstrated sense of urgency, and accountability are also required. Ability to manage multiple tasks simultaneously while maintaining quality and adhering to schedule.

Physical requirements include a mixed work environment that combines both office and plant working conditions with moderate to medium noise levels. Must be able to wear required personal protection equipment (PPE) such as hard hats, safety glasses, goggles, face shields, hearing protection, respirators, fall protection harnesses, and other PPE as required. Supervisor duties require extensive manual dexterity in usage of computer terminal and keyboard, while sitting for long periods of time preparing budgets, schedules, production reports, outage plans, and other reports as needed. Plant equipment may require supervisor inspection by climbing vertical ladders in excess of 20 feet and stairways in excess of 50 feet, using step stool, kneeling, bending, walking over uneven surfaces such as loose rock, open grating, up and down staircases. May be required to operate mobile equipment such as zoom booms or scissor lifts to reach heights to inspect equipment, which includes pushing or pulling equipment into place, climbing into a basket, and riding in the basket while the equipment is operational. When required for operation, maintenance, or emergency reasons, the supervisor must be able to quickly access all areas of the plant including, but not limited to, confined spaces, high elevations, and hot areas. May be required to work extended periods of time outside normal business hours. The compartments where certain equipment may be located may exceed temperatures of 130F. Some equipment may be located on surfaces where the temperatures may be as high as 600F. This position may require some domestic travel.